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Ever lived abroad?

  • 07-10-2013 02:36PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭


    & if you did, how did you find it?

    I did the mandatory year of drinking in Australia before coming home then doing a two year stint in New Zealand, which I absolutley loved. Still ask myself to this day, wtf was I thinking to come back?

    You?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,205 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    I've lived in Cork for 4 years.
    Does that count?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    I've lived in Cork for 4 years.
    Does that count?

    Yes. Hope you got your shots.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭Lad Of Banter


    I've lived in Cork for 4 years.
    Does that count?
    depends where you're from, is Cork considered abroad?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭Rosier


    Living abroad now.. in Ireland..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I was in Santa Ponsa for four nights once.

    So, no, never been abroad.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    I've lived in Cork for 4 years.
    Does that count?

    Extradited?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    i have heard its full of foreigners


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,926 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I live abroad 2-3 times a year for a period of 1-2 weeks each.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭homemadecider


    I lived and worked in India for a year. The weather was stinkin hot*, the chilli-spiked food tried to burn me from the inside out and the water half killed me with its various pathogens. Good times!

    * To put it in context, it was 47 degrees celcius the day I left.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    Am currently living as a broad, abroad.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭Philm_12


    I went out with abroad - does that count?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 326 ✭✭Savoir.Faire


    Spent a couple of months studying the religions of Central and Near-Eastern Asia. Wonderful to live amongst the natives and see how their beliefs and traditions emerged from the embers of even more ancient religions such as Zoroastrianism. Even a debate on the gnostic traditions that Bahá'í accepts as being moralistically valid have had a profound influence on my spiritualism.

    Travel really does broaden the mind.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Only in little stints of less than a year. One cold morning I tuned the radio to RTÉ 1 and listened to the weather forecast. I got a peculiar sense that I had sunk underwater and could never surface again. Might have been homesickness, which is weird, because one look at the horizon here and I get wanderlust.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Been living in London the past 14 years, retiring in Japan within the next 14 years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭nbar12


    i lived up in belfast for some time, but i didnt get on with the locals because they didnt like my fleg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Drakares


    Already living abroad. Wouldn't move back as the education, health, public transport, environmental, job market, cost of living is much better here. Not to mention my missus!

    I do miss Lyons, Barry's and the odd bag of Tayto though!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    Lived in Germany for 8 years


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I lived as a broad for a year in the 90's.

    I was just out of college, I was experimenting.

    It was fun at the time but I probably wouldn't go back to it. I found the tights very itchy.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    I love these threads were everyone can bang on about how wonderful and worldly they are!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    I love these threads were everyone can bang on about how wonderful and worldly they are!

    To counter that, there's still plenty who have lived abroad and not had their minds broadened...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    I have lived in Canada the U.S illegally for a while and Australia. Ireland is still my favorite tho


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭clappyhappy


    Spent a year in the US travelling around. Then spent 8 years working in Dubai, only came back as we had our first born out there and believed Dubai was not the place to bring up a child. Very settled here now and kids love it but once they go to college we are gone again, somewhere new.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    I was abroad in the back field the other evening, didn't like it. wet


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Was born and raised in Malaysia for 11 years before I moved to Ireland - been living in Ireland for hell of a lot longer since! :pac:


    I might end up moving again to the US or Germany eventually.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Have spent 13-14 years living abroad.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,162 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    & if you did, how did you find it?

    I did the mandatory year of drinking in Australia before coming home then doing a two year stint in New Zealand, which I absolutley loved. Still ask myself to this day, wtf was I thinking to come back?

    You?

    Yeah, I also ask myself why the hell you came back??? I mean Ireland is grand and all, but...?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,963 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Two and a half years in Belfast if that counts, not getting into that debate!

    Currently in the middle of a year long stint in Belgium.

    It's grand but I'm a bit of a home bird.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,204 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Spent a couple of months studying the religions of Central and Near-Eastern Asia. Wonderful to live amongst the natives and see how their beliefs and traditions emerged from the embers of even more ancient religions such as Zoroastrianism. Even a debate on the gnostic traditions that Bahá'í accepts as being moralistically valid have had a profound influence on my spiritualism.

    Travel really does broaden the mind.

    Aye, and so say all of us. Those Rastas can go an' sh!te, but - their spoo has way too much fleem.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭Surveyor11


    Would have liked to gone further afield to live for an extended period of time. I spent 2 summers in Germany followed by an Erasmus year, which I loved - it was just after reunification, so enjoyed being part of the history that was developing at the time.

    Lived in the UK for 5 years when I graduated - Shropshire (which was miserable) and London (which I loved and met my wife there).


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Oink wrote: »
    Yeah, I also ask myself why the hell you came back??? I mean Ireland is grand and all, but...?

    NZ is so isolated and socially it's the most boring country I've ever been to, so I wouldn't blame him. They're like the strict Scottish Presbyterians of the Southern Hemisphere.


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